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Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

In 2021, over 15 million children and young adolescents and 172 million adults were overweight or obese. This represents a ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America and the same is true for Alabama. Nearly 15,000 Alabamians died from heart disease in 2022. An unhealthy diet, obesity, tobacco usage and type 2 ...

One of the inadequacies of using body mass index (BMI) as a predictive factor is that “current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate” a persons ...

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Eli Lilly’s profit doubled in the fourth quarter, propelled by its hot-selling diabetes and obesity treatments, and the ...

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Novo Nordisk reported turnover from obesity treatments soared by 57 per cent to 65.1 billion Danish kroner last year, largely driven by strong demand in the United States.

The economic burden of obesity is also significant. In the Finger Lakes, excess medical spending due to obesity is estimated ...

Obesity not only affects the physical health of a person by causing a range of diseases but also impacts the mental well-being, said Dr Nand Kumar, psychiatrist at AIIMS said.